The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/10/07 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/10/07 at 21:00 EDT

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I'm Neil Hurland. Mark Carney is back in Washington. He's having a working dinner with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance. It follows a second Oval Office meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump earlier today. As Tom Perry reports, the meeting was friendly but did not lead to any breakthrough on tariffs. I think he's a great prime minister. Donald Trump has made life miserable for some leaders who've sat down in his ever more gold-adorned Oval Office, berating and belittling them in front of the cameras, but not Mark Carney.

I can tell you this because I deal with lots of leaders all over the world. He's a world-class leader. Kearney sat mostly silent as Trump fielded questions from reporters, but tried to steer the conversation back to the topic he came here to discuss, getting the U.S. to lift its tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum. autos and lumber. We are the second largest trading partner of the United States. We do a lot of trade going across the border where we're cooperating. In the end, the two sides agreed to keep talking on key areas like steel, aluminum, and energy for all Trump's kind words. U.S. tariffs for now

remain in place. Tom Perry, CBC News, Washington. Across Israel, there were solemn memorials today marking the second anniversary of the October 7th attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Nearly 1,200 people were killed in Israel. 251 were taken hostage into Gaza. Paul Hunter visited one of the hardest hit communities in southern Israel. It is a sobering place. In a grassy field, row after row of placards on metal posts with flowers and handwritten notes with the smiling faces of those killed on or near this spot precisely two years ago. It is the memorial at the site of the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel.

Two years later, and artillery fire not far from the Nova Memorial is a near constant reminder. Israel's response to the attacks, its brutal war on Hamas in Gaza itself continues on. Among the placards at the Nova Memorial, those still in captivity, Lied Vitman, came to see the placard for the daughter of a good friend. It's like you leaving it again. It's horrific times. All of it. Two years later, leaving so many in this country, still showing. shaken still mourning. Paul Hunter, CBC News, at the site of the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel. Two of the leaders of the truck convoy that took over downtown Ottawa in the winter of 2022

have received conditional sentences. Both Chris Barber and Tamara Leach were found guilty of mischief. Barber was also convicted of counseling others to commit mischief. Defense lawyer Lawrence Greenspont says both Leach and Barber are considering appealing their convictions. In Canada, constitutionally protected freedom of speech which encourages peaceful assembly must prevail over the rights of property owners. Today both were sentenced to 12 months of house arrest followed by six months curfew and community service.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on Ottawa to reverse its decision banning the export of marine lands beluga whales. The Ontario theme park says sending its 30 remaining whales to China was its only option. It has now asked the federal government to pay for their upkeep. Ford says Ottawa needs to offer solutions. It was the federal government that allowed them to bring these whales here. It should be the federal government that allows them to move them to China or other marine areas that will take them.

The federal fisheries and oceans minister says marine land's request for money is inappropriate and that Ontario also has a role to play. Marine Land has warned it would start euthanizing the whales if it doesn't receive cash by today. Well, in baseball playoffs, the Toronto Blue Jays are in the Bronx tonight, playing against the New York Yankees in game three of the American League Division Series. The Jays are ahead 4-1 at the top of the third inning. If the Jays win tonight, they move to the next round of the World Series playoffs. And that is your world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.